Mop-head.



No. 699,3l2. 0 Patented May 6, 1902.

A. s. HELD.

MOP HEAD.

(Application filed Oct. 20, 1901.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST S. HELD, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO STOVER MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MOP-HEAD.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,312, dated May 6, 1909.

Application filed October 30, 1901- Serial No. 80,570. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, AUGUST S. HELD, a citi Zen of the United States of America, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop-Heads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the production of improved heads for holding mops; and it consists of certain new and useful features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described,and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a mop-head embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the same at the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of the mop-head with the jaws thereof in position to admit a mop between the same. Figs. 4 and 5 are end views of a ring which serves as a connecting means between the ends of a wire forming the movable jaw of the mop-head. Fig. 6 is asection at the dotted line 6 6 in Fig. 5 of parts there shown.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A is a mop-stick.

B 13 represent a casting composing the fixed clamping-jaw of the mop-head and its handlesocket.

O is a counterpart movable clamping-jaw parallel with the fixed jaw 13, having its ends 0' C extending and converging rearwardly and united by means of a collar D, which has a central opening D therein indented with notches D in the perimeter thereof, and is provided with trunnions D about which the ends 0 C of the jaw O are bent, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. U

E is a lever fnlcrumed by one end E through the hook-stud E and pivot-bearing E to the handle A and extending therefrom rearwardly through the collarD. Aconvenient means of connecting the lever E with the collar D is to have lugs Eso formed thereon that they will pass through the notches D in the perimeter of the'opening therein, as

clearly shown in Fig. 4. Such lever may then be turned to the position shown in Fig. 5.

The lugs E thereon will then retain the leverE and its encircling collar in permanent engagement.

F is a spring interposed between the collar D and a hearing, as F, at the lowerend portion of the lever E.

Fig. 3 shows the lever E raised, which operation carried the movable jaw O away from the fixed jaw B, so as to allow the mop G to I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters I Patent, is-

1. In a mop-head,in combination, a handle, a casting comprising a fixed clamping-jaw and a handle-socket,a counterpart movable clamping-jawparallel with the fixed jaw-having its ends extending and converging rearward] y and united by connecting means, a lever fulcrumed, by one end, to the handle, and extending therefrom rearwardly through the connecting means of the clamping-jaw ends, and a spring interposed between such connecting means and a hearing at the lower end portion of the lever, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

I 2. The combination of a handle A, with a fixed clamping-jaw B fast thereto, a movable clamping-jaw 0 having its ends 0 G extending and converging rearwardly, means, as a collarD, for uniting the ends 0 C of the jaw O, a lever E fulcrumed, by one end, to the handle A, and extending therefrom through the collar D, and a spring F normally acting to clamp the jaw 0 against the jawB, sub stantially as and for the purpose specified.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST S. HELD. Witnesses:

J As. W. DUNLOP, L. HUGHES. 

